Death Quotes

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

~ Steve Jobs

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

~ Brennan Manning

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

~ Les Brown

Failure too is a form of death.

~ Graham Greene

When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves.

~ Simon Mcburney

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

~ Debra Winger

Failure? Scared to death of it.

~ Ryan Seacrest

When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

~ Laura Fraser

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

~ Rupert Holmes

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

~ Errol Flynn

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

~ Wendell Pierce

My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.

~ Rj Mitte

No one can make you happy. No one can help you grow in life more than you can. I can love you to death, but I can only go so far. I can inspire and encourage you as much as I can, but when you play an active role to find that self-security and that self-worth, it makes the difference.

~ Musiq Soulchild

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

~ Julius Caesar

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

~ John Galsworthy

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

~ Johnny Cash

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

~ Michelangelo

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

~ Ken Kesey

The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.

~ Riccardo Sabatini

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

~ Joel Osteen

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

~ H. R. Mcmaster

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

~ Sam Snead

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

~ Alfred Russel Wallace

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

~ John Glenn

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

~ Wesley Morris

I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores where they're playing bad versions of Christmas songs on repeat.

~ Gillian Jacobs

The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas.

~ Richard Attenborough

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

~ Meghan O'rourke

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.

~ Tom Lehman

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

~ Marina Abramović

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

~ Woody Allen

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

~ Sachin Tendulkar

I'm working myself to death.

~ Alan Ladd

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

~ Madeleine M. Kunin

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

~ Jane Smiley

I think I was lucky to be a little older when I became famous. But still, the shock of the world starting to treat you in a weird way... I had come from the army, where we had to deal with life or death, and suddenly, people were asking whether you were cool or not. I have never cared about whether I'm cool.

~ James Blunt

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

~ Russell Crowe